Now you see, now you don't !!!

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The weather in Borneo is getting weird caused by the global warming. This year is the "wettest" dry season I ever experienced!!! In this Sunday trip, I decided to check the orchids in Bau area as I think July should be the flowering season for wild orchids. So, I went to that site where 2 species of slipper orchids grow at the disturbed limestone forest.

When I reached the site.....I was shocked to see this .......

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Now you see .... (Paphiopedilum lowii, picture taken on May 12, 2007)






Now you don't !!! Paphiopedilum lowii is gone (July 8, 2007)!!! Someone took the slipper orchid!






However, Paphiopedilum stonei is still here. Apparently, this orchid collector only interested at Paphiopedilum lowii. Oh great, now I have to find another site for Paphiopedilum lowii. Today, I was supposed to check both of the slipper orchids are flowering or not.....but, it was a bad day when I found out my favourite orchid was GONE !!!






Unidentified species of orchid. - species A. There are at least 6 species of orchids are going to bloom soon. Too bad, I am leaving Borneo soon for my up coming adventure trip, so can't come back to check the flowers.

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Unidentified species of orchid.






Unidentified species of orchid with a flower bud:





The limestone hills at Bau.





Pitcher plant, Nepenthes northiana.

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Probably juvenile of Huperzia squarrosa




Selaginella wildenowii





Unidentified species of scrub. The leaf looks like the leaf of "simpur air" (Dilennia)







Meet my favourite snake again, Wagler's pit viper or Temple viper. (Tropidolaemus wagleri)





Take note there is a stick insect very close to the snake (Wagler's pit viper). If it moves, then the snake will eat it.